Linda Connor

Artist Works

Artist Bio

Linda Connor has spent more than twenty-five years exploring and investigating exotic and spiritual places. A frequent visitor to India, Mexico, Thailand, Ireland, Peru, Nepal, Egypt, Hawaii and the American Southwest, Connor takes her 8 x 10" view camera on a pilgrimage into our history. What she reveals is a past filled with presence; a past which informs and molds our world today.

Connor"s photographs have appeared in numerous books: most recently Odyssey. Other books include: Spiral Journey, published for her mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1990. She is the recipient of many awards including a 1988 & 1976 NEA and a 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work is part of numerous collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

1997 "Photographs from the Collection of the University Art Gallery', New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM "Under the Dark Cloth: The View Camera in Contemporary Photography', Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA "Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection', International Center of Photography, New York, NY “Face in Focus, Photos from the Barry S. Ramer Collection,” California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA, March-April “Selections from the Permanent Collection: Depth of Field,” Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, April-July

1992 "Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography," National Museum of American Art Washington D.C. "Selections from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Representatives: Women Photographers from the Permanent Collection," Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ "The Country Between Us: Contemporary American Landscape Photographs," Huntington Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA "Parents," DAI Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Creative Arts Center, Dayton, OH "Charles Pratt Memorial Award Exhibition," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ “Mexico through Foreign Eyes,” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, December traveled to International Center for Photography, NY, NY, September

1979 "American Photography in the "70"s," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL "American Images - New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers," 1979-81, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and The International Center for Photography, New York, NY “Mirrors and Windows - American Photography Since 1960," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalogue)

1996 Perpetual Mirage, Photographic Narratives of the Desert West, May Castleberry, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Vest, Joe, The Open Road, Walt Whitman on Death & Dying, Four Corners Editions, Mesa, AZ, Plates 18 & 19. Baker, Kenneth, "It Might be Art but it"s also Science', San Francisco Chronicle, Nov.8 Exhibiting Photography, Twenty Years at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, p. 56

1996 Jerusalem, Limited Edition, Artist Book, San Francisco, CA On the Music of the Spheres, Limited Edition with Charles Simic, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Visits: Linda Connor, Light Work, Syracuse, NY

1995 Contemporary American Photographers, 3rd Edition All Smiles, Gruce Velick editor, published by Chronicle Books, plate #12 An American Century of Photography, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Keith F. Davis editor, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Photography in the 1990"s, CD-Rom editor Ron Geibert, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Hagen, Charles, "From Here There and Everywhere', The New York Times, September 1, P. C20 Braff, Phyllis, "Eugene Atget / Linda Connor', The New York Times, November 5

1992 Parents, Ronald Geibert - editor, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Bonetti, David, "Capturing the Spirit of Places and People', San Francisco Examiner, December 15 More Reflections on the Meaning of Life, Daniel Friend and the editors of Life, The Time Inc. Baker, James, "Landscape with Company', Outside, August , pp. 85-87 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute and the University of New Mexico Press Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Rufino Tamayo, The Kiss of Apollo: Photography and Sculpture 1845 to the Present, Fraenkel Gallery and Bedford Arts Published by Pilar Perez and Associates

1989 Decade by Decade: Twentieth Century American Photography, from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Romance of the Taj Mahal, Thames and Hudson / Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1987 Marks in Place, University of New Mexico Press The New American Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within, Diana Schoenfeld- author, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, (cover image pp.33, 149, 158.)

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS 2005 Honored Educator, Society of Photographic Educators 2002 Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists 2001 Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists 1998 Best Book of the Year, 21st- A Contemporary Photography Journal, for On the Music of Spheres 1997 Best Exhibition Catalog of 1997- Runner-up from Photo Eye, Visits Best Contemporary Monography of 1997 from Photo Eye, On the Music of Spheres, 1996 1996 Life Time Achievement Award, Marin Arts Council 1994 National Endowment for the Arts, Travel Grant Cypress Award, Center for Photographic Art 1988 The Charles Pratt Memorial Award National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant 1986 Individual Artist Grants, Marin Arts Council "Photographer of the Year Award," Peer Awards, Friends of Photography 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship 1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Grant